So this is the biggest PPV of the year but the previous TV show was main-evented by Hardyz Vs Dudleyz Vs Wolves in a TLC match for the tag titles. Does anybody else see the problem with expecting people to pay $40 for this show?

My girlfriend and best friend's wife are going to the farmer's market, so my best friend and I are gonna make an enormous breakfast, drink beer and play as much video games as his hopefully sleeping baby will allow us.

Man, catching up on Austin's podcast. Listening to his talk with JR. JR's rant on a needed for real heels, and having enforced rules the heel can break to make a clear line between the bad guy and the good guy is so true.

Yeah but I'm thinking back then heels would choke Austin to a 4 count, or a McMahon would low bridge Austin coming towards the ropes causing him to fall out of the ring and then get removed from ringside.

I imagine he stays locked in a padded room just saying, "MELTZER WRONG AGAIN! HE HAS NO SOURCES! ONE MILLION VIEWERS A WEEK! TNA IS FIIIIIIIIIINE!"

Then they let him out of the straight jacket to post here for a few hours a day. I believe at least 70% of the reason he keeps coming back is because he uses his tears from the TNA bashing to jerk off with. The guy is a loon and completely uncredible.

The angle where Eaton joined with Regal was good. He offers to join Regal and gets rebuffed. So they have a match in which Eaton was pretty over as a babyface. Regal quits in the middle, Eaton has earned his respect, voila, tag team. Blue Bloods was an iffy gimmick but I enjoy both Regal and Beautiful Bobby.

Whoa, you never I'd never actually watched this before, I had no idea how blatant it was. I pictured her coming into the arena loading dock and just wordlessly dumping the belt in the trash. Didn't know they actually named the competition and acknowledged that she was Alundra Blayze. This is why Nitro was revolutionary.

Not nearly as pleased as the crowd was to see them all perform. Unbelievable. Every report I am hearing says this show was amazing live. This could be a real turning point for TNA as a whole. The future looks bright... Except the TV deal, however, I could see a massive success such as this really opening the eyes of some hard headed tv execs out there. I'm sure the crack production team is putting together a nice international video package to show just how popular and successful TNA is abroad and how that energy can be not only maintained, but heightened state side. A great day to be a wrestling fan for sure.

WCW's tour of Australia in November 2000. Hot crowds every night, everyone seemed to be a superstar. Unfortunately they booked return tickets and had to come home to an unforgiving and hostile United States of America.

Sammartino's nothing more than an Eye-Talian bag of hair. Didn't we beat them up 20 years ago, why should we CHEER for one of them? At least Buddy's a good ole' American. Just like apple pie and baseball.

I totally agree with JR about this. Why should we boo any of the WWE heels? Because the WWE tell us to? Most of the heels don't do anything dastardly. They tell us that someone like Bo Dallas is a heel but if he never does anything heelish besides spouting some cornball inspirational quotes then why should the fans boo him. Then they wonder why the fans cheer him ironically. Maybe if they do some simple rulebreaking then maybe the crowds would actually boo the heels rather than repeat their catchphrases.

Nah, probably jsut still fired up about being inducted into the prestigious TNA HOF. I'm pretty sure WWF1987 has already confirmed he will be resigning with TNA long term and he has even more sources within TNA than Meltzer.

The raw energy TNA would receive from an Australian tour is something they need to seriously consider. From what I hear they are even more popular than WWE in Australia and they need to do a tour for that rabid fan base. Spud would have that crowd eating out of the palm of his hand.

I think it's interesting that Kim Jung Un is apparently missing at the same time that Dixie Carter takes herself off TNA television. I would expect negotiations for TNA in North Korea are at a very, very advanced stage.

Bo Dallas is a heel in the vain of a 2000 Kurt Angle. He's a goody two-shoes whose meant to get under your skin. In that role, he's very effective. He actually shouldn't be breaking the rules, because that wouldn't be his character. If anything, the faces should be breaking the rules to get at him to get cheers (AKA Stone Cold, Eddie Guerrero).

Bo Dallas would be a lot more effective if they gave him a better story line than insulting people who lost to Rusev though. He might as well change his name to Rusev's Sloppy Seconds right now.

After all WCW did on Nitro in 1995 (the constant bashing, the "this is where the big boys play, those guys suck" comments, they tape their shows and here's who wins stuff, trashing the women's title), you can't blame WWF for taking shots back at them with the Billionaire Ted sketches... until they got too low-brow and they never actually acknowledged Eric Bischoff's existence, the man responsible.

Better storylines would definitely help. The NXT version of Bo Dallas was a hypocrite. He preaches all these virtuous things then he turns around and cheat behind everyone's back while denying that he would ever do such things. That's the difference between a heel and a snark favorite.

This Countdown segment on Jimmy Johnson and the Herschel Walker trade makes me even more pissed off at Jerry Jones for being completely unable to swallow his pride and keep Johnson around. No telling how many more Super Bowls we could have had.

I just wish it made sense. What does it mean for Swagger to Bo-lieve? Does Dallas have a program for Swagger or whomever to follow? He just says "You need to bo-lieve". I can see why that would be annoying, but what the christ does he MEAN? Please flesh these characters out a bit, WWE.

I had to find out the hard way that my new ISP has stuck a cap on my monthly usage. 250 GB a month. I don't even know if that's a lot. I've gone over by 12 GB and the billing cycle isn't even over yet.

What would be kind of neat (if incredibly ambitious) is to turn one Wrestlemania into a three day event in three locations. You could have shows on Friday and Saturday at locations around the world air at various times on the network, then do the traditional Sunday night in the USA. Of course, it would require splitting the roster for the three shows, but the impetus to bring back part timers for a show would at least make sense. If you had two or three big matches from each venue, used a combination of NXT or international talent on the undercard for the shows abroad then used your mid card for the American show? It'd be hard to pull off, but it would rock as a wrestling fan.

I wish these damn refs would figure out basic booking: use their biased call-making ability to hand the Browns some games during the season so when they job them out to their beloved Steelers it looks more impressive.

The indoctrination of Eaton into the blueblood lifestyle is probably the funniest series of skits WCW did that were actually meant to be funny. Regal offering Eaton his choice of wine and Bobby asking for a bottle of Boone's Farm = high comedy.

And by that I mean shitting on something before it happens. By all means, shit on it afterwards, but to shit on it pre-emptively just makes me think people WANT to hate TNA rather than enjoy the bits that are actually good and hate the rest.

Weird that Team 3D teased going after a new set of tag titles at BFG (most likely the IWGP titles since they pulled out the Bullet Club shirts). Weird that TNA would let them do that. And weird because AJ Styles said (on Jim Ross's podcast) that NJPW really hates TNA right now.

Pretty much the same pattern with me. 1st week I got murdered in pick em and in bets. 2nd week, killed in pickem, broke even on bets. Since then things have mostly stabilized and I had a pretty big week 4 to cancel out the early season failings but I'm still wary.